Bracelet hook



Feb. 24. 1,925. 1,5273@ C. S. MACDONALD BRACELET HOOK Filed April 8, 192.4

attorney Patented Feb. 24, 1925.

UNITED STATES CREIGHTON S. MACDONALD, OF ATTLEORO, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO IND- INC., OF ATTLEBORO, MASSACHUSETTS, A CORPORATION OF PENDENT MFG. CO., RHODE ISLAND.

laatste PATENT OFFICE.

BRACELET HOOK,

Application med April s, 1924, seriai No. 704,959.

To all yw/z om it may concern Be it known that I, CRnreH'roN S. MAC- noNALD, a citizen of the United States, residing at Attleboro, in the county .of Bristol and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bracelet Hooks, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a hook or con'- 19 nector more particularly adapted for attachingthe ends of a bracelet to a wrist watch and the like: and the obj ect of this invention is to provide a hook of this character which is simple and practioal'in construction and which is provided with a slidablel tongue member arranged to normally close the hook to prevent it from becoming inadvertently detached from the watch. i

lVith these and other objects in view, the invention consists of certain novel features of construction, as will be more fully described, and particularly pointed out in the appended claims.

In the accompanying drawings Figure 1 is a side elevation showing a watch and indicating the ends of a chain or bracelet as connected to the sides of the watch by my improved hook links.

Figure 2 is a perspective view of the hook member detached from the hook link.

n'Figure 3 is a perspective view of the outer body member of the hook link.

Figure 4 is a perspective view of the inner body members of the hook link.

Figure 5 is a perspective view of the closing tongue member of this hook link.

Figure 6 is a side elevation of this tongue member.

Figure 7 is a top view showing the hook member as housed in the body portion of the hook.

Figure 8 is a sectional side elevation of my improved hook and showing the tongue as closing the hook portion.

Figure 9 is a sectional end elevation on line 9-9 of Figure 8.

VIt is found in the practical construction and operation of hook links of this character, of advantage to mount a sliding tongue member in the body portion of the link and to provide an operating presser finger extending through the wall of the link which may be readily operated for the purpose of withdrawing the locking tongue member to permit the hook to be readily attached to and detached from the watch when desired: and the following is a detailed description of one construction by be accomplished `With reference to the drawings, 10` designates the outer body member of the hook link which is provided with a front wall 11 slotted at 12 and having side walls 13 be- .i

tween which is set the inner or under body member '14 which is provided with laterally extending flanges l5 over which the marginal edges of the side walls 13 of the upper member are two body members securely together.

In a space between these body members, I have mounted the shank portion 1.9 of the hook member 16, which shank extends through openings 17 and 18 in the opposite end walls of the body member and this hook portion extends forwardly from the body, its outer end being preferably broadened and folded over to form a hook 2O to engage the bail of a watch 22. The rear end 23 of the shank of this hook member extends out beyond the rear end of the hook link and is provided with side edge fingers 24 and an end nger 251 by which this Vshank member may be connected to the next adjacent link or other element of the chain or bracelet.

It will be noted that the end wall of the next adjacent link, when positioned between the finger 24 and the end wall of the body 14, will cooperate with the shoulders 26 at the ou*L of the hook member to lock this `o shank against an endwise motion iii/either direction in its body member, the 'shoulders 26 preventing a rearward motion while the iinger 24 prevents a forward motion of the hook.

In order `to provide a closure for the mouthV of the hook, I have provided a plate member 27 which is slidably mounted in the 'body member, at one end of which plate is formed a tongue 28 which extends forwardly beyond the body normally bridging the mouth of the hook, and at the rear end of this plate is a finger 29 cut from the stock of the plate and around which the inner end of the spring 30 is wound while the opposite end of the spring abuts against the rear end wall of the link. This plate is also provided with a presser or operating linger 31 which extends up through this which this result may i rolled or folded to lock these slot 12 in the front plate in position to be engaged to operate the tongue plate Whereby a rearward pressure on this' member moves the tongue rearwardly against 'its 5 spring pressure to open the mout-h of the hook and when released the spring naturally forces the plate forward causing its tongue to again close the hook.

My improved hook link is very simple and practical in construction'and eiective in its operation and by its use the hook may be locked in position against being inadvertently disengaged from the Watch and by a simple operation of the presser member the hook may be opened to be disconnected when desired. Y,

The foregoing:descriptionis directed solely towards the 'construction illustrated,- but I de sir'e'itwtov be yunderstood'that I reserve the privilege of resorting 'to all the mechanical u changes to which'- the device is susceptible, 9 the'invention' being defined and limited only by the'terms of the appended claims.y

Watch, and a spring-pressed tongue slidab-ly mounted in said body and having a portion closing said hook.

2. A. Watch bracelet hook having a body portion with a slot in one Wall thereof, a sheet-metal liooloshaped member extending from said body and adapted to be passed 4through the bail of a Wrist Watch, a springpressed tongue member slidably mounted in said body to lnormally close said hook to lock it rin bail-engaging position, and a projection on said tongue extending through y said slot to be manually engaged to Withdraw said tongue toiopcn the hook.

3. A bracelet hook having a body portion with a slot in its front Wall, a separate mem- '45 ber tiXe'd in lsaid body and 'having a hooksh'aped extending end, va plate slidablein said body having a rearwardly-extending finger and a 'forwardly-extending tongue to normally close said hook, an operating 50 spring having one. endvmounted onV` said finger and its ,other endfabutting againsta Y yportion of sai'dbody, anda piessermember oRnIGHToNs? Milione nature;

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